Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History
Subtitle: From the Age of Industrialization to the Present
Contributors: Melvin I. Urofsky (Editor); Paul Finkelman (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 20, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
ISBN-13: 9780195128727
First sentence: In 1869, Louisiana chartered the Crescent City Live-Stock Landing and Slaughter-House Company, and gave it a twenty-five-year monopoly in an area comprising three parishes with a population of two hundred thousand, including the city of New Orleans.